We appreciate your visits and support! We’re experiencing massive overload here getting the greenhouse ready for season and a number of other community developments that are time and energy intensive. We’re suspending blogging “operations” until further notice and will fire up the presses again when we get a handle on all the workload –

By Jack(this is a re-post – Jack wrote this early on in our blogging effort just a couple months back and it did not get the attention it deserves…)

We were hangin’ last week laughing about all the “romantic” things that turn out not – the constant “grass is always greener” kind of imagining about living this way or that, and the more seriously unfortunate romantic notions like eager young men going off to fight in a war for “an honorable cause” only to come home (if they’re lucky) with post-traumatic stress disorder and painfully disillusioned.

Well, living off-grid has not so much life-death drama (well, can have…) but many off-grid-wannabe’s do over-romanticize the whole she-bang just out of plain in-experience.

I’m old enough to remember the shock and awe at the sci-fi flik “Soylent Green” where good ‘ol Chas Heston discovered that the food solution for the over-crowded, polluted and no longer productive earth was to re-process the dead and dying into “Soylent Green” chips – food from the bodies of the dead.

It was truly a “camp” film and it quickly became (and still is) a kind of classic symbol of our over-crowded earth, the stretching of our limited resources by rampant, unthinking over-population. The thing is – back in the 1970’s it was still campy sci-fi. The world population was just clicking over 3 billion and although for those who were paying attention, the red flags were starting to pop up regarding over-population, underproduction of food, crop failures and starvation, most people were complacent and happily ignorant.

“Oh Damn!” I said – frustrated that my memory was so lousy, “we’re almost back to the highway and I need gas – there’s not any stations ahead”. I swung the car around – Lola’s head already bobbing as sleep overtook her after an oh- so-very-exciting 3rd birthday party (her first birthday party).

At the first quick-stop gas station I pulled in and dragged my tired daddy self into the junk food-like-substance crammed isles of the harsh fluorescent-lit “convenience” store. (every wonder what was “convenient” about a store full of truly horrible, fake foods, health-debilitating sugar/HFCS drinks and worthless junk products? I guess keeping them in one place where we can effective ignore them IS convenient – at least for some of us…) .

The dangers of cell phones use ESPECIALLY BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE is no longer a “absurd idea” or “radical” position as the industry selling you cell phones has maintained in the face of ever-damning studies and reports for the last 20 years.

USING CELL PHONES AS WELL AS OTHER FAST-INCREASING EMF SMOG SOURCES IS DANGEROUS FOR YOUR HEALTH – THIS IS NOW A RESEARCHED FACT.

“In normal weight humans, cortical responses to infused glucose are opposite to those of fructose. Differential brain responses to these sugars and their metabolites may provide insight into the neurologic basis for dysregulation of food intake during high dietary fructose intake.”

As we are starting our home schooling of Lola, we have been oh-so-fortunate to be introduced to the writings of John Taylor Gatto.

Although we have long distrusted and were clear about our intent NOT to send Lola to any kind of public school (no, we’re not religious nuts, we are free-thinkers…), neither I nor Sunna were so thoroughly informed as to the depth and unabashedly demeaning intent of public schooling.

The whole story of how the US ended up with the school system we have, its REAL intent and the way it is designed to LITERALLY DUMB US DOWN for control is ***shocking***.

Here is John Taylor Gatto in a short segment of an interview giving you an idea of the intent and design of our system. Mr Gatto, although an articulate writer, is a simple speaker – after all, he was 30 years a teacher and you can see it in his demeanor.

The information he is dispensing is indispensable! We encourage those of you so inclined to seek out his writings and essays.

“Shunning is the act of deliberately avoiding association with, and habitually keeping away from an individual or group. It is a sanction against association often associated with religious groups and other tightly-knit organizations and communities. Practiced by the Amish as a kind of social punishment for improper behavior.”

by Ravi

As little as 6 months ago, we were (somewhat reservedly) defending Whole Foods as a kind of only and last choice for at least SOME conscious food shopping experience.

Many of us are conceptually incarcerated by decades of indoctrination to modern dentistry’s revival-tent calls to sit in the dentist chair and “be healed” (and forfeit big bucks doing so). Dental “care”, dental products and dentifrices are a huge, 100’s of millions of dollars a year business. We’ve been led to believe – like in so many other areas of our lives, that we need holy professionals, in this case the “dental care priests” to pray over us with their high-speed drills in order to keep our teeth past childhood.

DO NOT VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN OR YOURSELF. THE MANUFACTURERS OF THESE UNPROVEN POISONS, THANKS TO OUR OWN SUPREME COURT, NOW HAVE ***COMPLETE IMMUNITY*** FOR ANYTHING THEY DO REGARDING VACCINATING YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES.

BIG PHARMA’S NOW SUPREME COURT MANDATED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION IS INFINITELY BETTER THAN ANY IMMUNITY YOU WILL EVER GET FROM ONE OF THEIR VACCINATIONS!

DO NOT VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN OR YOURSELF. THE MANUFACTURERS OF THESE UNPROVEN POISONS, THANKS TO OUR OWN SUPREME COURT, NOW HAVE ***COMPLETE IMMUNITY*** FOR ANYTHING THEY DO REGARDING VACCINATING YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES.

BIG PHARMA’S NOW SUPREME COURT MANDATED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION IS INFINITELY BETTER THAN ANY IMMUNITY YOU WILL EVER GET FROM ONE OF THEIR VACCINATIONS!

Gawd how we love our Lock’n Lock food storage containers – How humans over the ages ever got along without these is a mystery to us. Old, miserable Tupperware (burp!) is to these great containers as a horse-drawn sledge is to a minivan!

(I have to laugh at that pic I found – look at all that horrific food-like stuff in there!)

Gawd how we love our Lock’n Lock food storage containers – How humans over the ages ever got along without these is a mystery to us. Old, miserable Tupperware (burp!) is to these great containers as a horse-drawn sledge is to a minivan!

(I have to laugh at that pic I found – look at all that horrific food-like stuff in there!)

As is often the case when chatting with our dear friend Timothy, lots of varied and interesting subjects cross our discussions – and the new age personality, David Icke has been mentioned. Timothy recently was writing to an email contact regarding Icke, and T’s observations were so astute, I wanted to share them here.

There is simply no good lead-in to this very odd, dark, but curiously compelling animated film. If you have a great insight into it’s meaning – please share it in the comments – otherwise, just enjoy it’s weirdness…